Three journalists told to leave within five days after paper declined to apologise for opinion pieceCoronavirus updates – liveChina has revoked the press credentials of three journalists from the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) after the newspaper declined to apologise for a column that called
China the “real sick man of Asia”, the foreign ministry has said.
Spokesman Geng Shuang told a daily briefing on Wednesday that
Beijing made several representations to the paper over the column, which China criticised as racist and denigrating its efforts to combat the coronavirus epidemic, but that it had failed to apologise or investigate those responsible.